Current amount of federal money put toward subsidizing health insurance for children………………………………………………………………………. $5 billion
Amount included in a proposed bill backed by governors and Medicaid directors……………………………………………………………………………… $15 billion
Number of uninsured children who could be insured with the new funding………. $5.5 million
Amount the University of South Florida was denied in grant money for Upward Bound, a program designed to recruit low-income kids………………………………………………………………. $650,000
Number of universities who were approved nationwide…………………………………………………. 775
Age of Julian Mayorga, who was served a margarita instead of an apple juice at an Applebee’s last week………………………………………. 2
Number of suspects in a worldwide pedophile ring apprehended last week………………………………. 700
Number of “indecent and explicit images” found on the ringleader’s computer……………………… 75,960
Number of children left in the “baby drop,” a box for parents to anonymously give up their children as an alternative to abortion, at a hospital in Kumamoto, Japan, in the month since it opened…………………………………………………………………………… 3
Number of children living in Japanese orphanages in 1998………………………………………………… 27,000
Number of children living in Japanese orphanages in 2003………………………………………………… 30,400
Sources: breitbart.com, sptimes.com, mercurynews.com, chron.com, chinapost.com
This article appears in Jun 20-26, 2007.
